Lobbying and the collective action problem: comparative evidence from enterprise surveys

摘要: Industry lobbying is traditionally thought of as a non-excludable good subject to collective action problems that are most easily solved by concentrated industries. However, there very little empirical support for this hypothesis. In paper, we address major shortcoming existing work on the topic: Its near-exclusive reliance data from US. Using comparative firm-level survey up 74 countries, construct an industry-level indicator concentration and test its effect firms’ activity. multilevel Extreme Bounds Analysis Bayesian Variable Selection techniques account model uncertainty, find no evidence industry predictor We discuss implications these non-findings literature outline possible avenues further research.